While the impact of COVID-19 varies across industries and regions, business leaders must manage uncertainty as they plan for ways to preserve company value. SBA programs are exhausted, but financial health hasn’t returned. Alternative financing options, difficult operational decisions and financial restructuring are all part of the landscape. During this session we will address actions to protect businesses today and establish cash flow management strategies.

Join BPM for an intimate discussion hosted by Edward Webb, as we dive deeper into maintaining business in a post-COVID market:

• Emergence and recovery models to balance multiple priorities
• Alternative financing options to fit your company’s cash flow needs
• People and payroll management
• Strategies to maximize company value and payout

OUR SPECIAL GUESTS

Edward Webb

Partner, Advisory

Edward has over 30 years of experience in consulting and financial management, including specific experience in business restructuring and leadership advisory services. Prior to BPM, Edward was a Partner at a boutique advisory services firm providing financial analysis, fiduciary services and the resolution of problem asset situations nationwide. He also spent nine years at a national accounting and consulting firm where he developed significant experience in business valuation, business startups and executive leadership. Edward began his career managing the problem-asset portfolio in the successful turnaround of a large East Coast thrift.

Jill Pappenheimer, SPHR

Partner, HR Consulting

Jill Pappenheimer brings 30 years of experience supporting the people function for organizations ranging from large financial institutions to small entrepreneurial teams. In 2006, she began consulting with companies, and in 2012 she co-founded Options4Growth, a boutique-consulting firm bringing both outsourced Human Resources and Strategy Advising, combined with cloud based technology, to a broad range of clientele.

She has an extensive business management background giving her a unique perspective to traditional HR practices. Jill believes that you need to link people, with technology, and organizational goals and objectives in order to grow and thrive.

Jill has a passion for people and firmly believes that organizations of all sizes and types are successful when employees share in the creation of their roles and responsibilities and can see the link to the company initiatives, change happens, accountability and engagement occurs. In her experience working with some of the valleys top technology companies she truly believes that technology creates efficiency and must be part of any solution to achieve growth. But it’s people that feed corporate growth.

Terry Hill

Partner, Advisory

Terry is a Partner in BPM’s Advisory Practice and is responsible for leading the Firm’s CFO Services group, which supports middle-market companies through key points of inflection: rapid growth, capital raise, M&A and turnaround/bankruptcy. Directly prior to BPM, Terry was Northern California Office Managing Partner for Tatum, a national, professional services firm, where he had responsibilities for a similar practice of interim CFOs and Controllers. With over 20 years of experience as an owner/operator and consultant, Terry has parlayed his entrepreneurial background into practice leadership, practice management and new revenue generation responsibilities.

Prior to BPM and Tatum, Terry ran the Bay Area Private Equity practice for ADP’s middle market business unit, Major Accounts. He and his team delivered a value creation model to Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge funds through their portfolios. By leveraging Human Resources BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), the practice helped drive fund performance, shorten TSA periods and bring speed to post-close integration—resulting in half to a full point of EBITDA performance, across the portfolio. Prior to being a consultant, Terry was an entrepreneur. As the operating General Manager of a lower middle-market consulting firm, Terry achieved 5x EBITDA growth in four years, driving utilization rates from less than 50% to roughly 90%.

Terry’s M&A experience includes buy-side and sell-side transactions totaling $6B+ of enterprise value in the consumer, healthcare and technology sectors.

Brett Hazlett

Director, Advisory

Brett has more than 20 years of progressive experience in the consumer, manufacturing, retail, nonprofit and pharmaceutical sectors. He is a highly-accomplished, results-driven senior accounting and finance executive.

Brett is a mission-driven specialist with extensive experience in strategic and operational roles who has a hands-on understanding of accounting and finance. His strong business partnering skills drive meaningful and trusted relationships with direct reports, key cross-functional partners, customers, vendors and senior leadership.

Brett’s collaborative leadership style encourages creative problem solving, drives accountability and integrity, and promotes risk-based decision making.